In-Game Books - Lore and Stories

I'm in the process of building a new rune library, which will also feature a section of in-game books, such as those that can be stolen from places like Britain Library and Britain Castle, those that are loot, quest items or rewards.

I've got about 30-ish different ones so far, but wondered... is there a "master" list of the titles anywhere I can cross reference against?

Any links or pointing in the right direction would be most appreciated

Stratics has a page for the original books, along with some of the subsequent releases. Not the newest books with the SA expansion. Note that the last book on the list, "Phonemes of the orcish tongue, by Yorick of Yew", was a very rare item that didn't spawn after the early days. I don't know if there's any copies left at all anymore. I'm not sure that it wasn't a one time Easter Egg spawned at release, I just don't know.Link

I don't know why this entire section is removed from the UO Stratics front page links. I guess it's like everything else, if it's not about powergaming it has no value. They used to archive all the events and history too, but that went away some time ago. Go figure, it's just a game.

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I played many years ago, and I also collected the books you speak about. I had the entire collection in Both Colors, but as I said this was back in 2004. Here is the List I had back then, I hope this helps,

Peace be with you Evlar

Caesar

Beltran’s Guide to Guilds
Birds of Britannia
The Bold Stranger
Britannia Flora: A Casual Guide
The Burning of Trinsic
Classic Children’s Tales: Volume 2
Classic Tales of Vesper: Volume 1
Deceit: A Dungeon of Horrors
Dimensional Travel
Ethical Hedonism
The Fight
A Grammar of Orcish
The Life of a Traveling Minstrel
The Major Trade Associations
My Story
On The Diversity of Our Land
A Politic Call to Anarchy
A Primer on Arms & Weapons
The Rankings of Trades
Regarding Llamas
A Song of Samlethe
A Tale of Three Tribes
Talking to Wisps
Taming Dragons
Treatise on Alchemy
Virtue
The Wild Girl of the Forest
Phenomes of the Orcish Tongue

Supposedly there are two other books that used to spawn (I think one was The Etymology of Orcish or something like that). There are 27 currently spawning. There are two "looks" to the books. The small coffee colored or purple in ton ones and the larger white or tan in ton books, can all be found at provisioner shops. You have to buy and open them to "read" them and see which story is inside. They can't be copied by scribes or written over. If the book (other than these listed above) is blue or the small "newbie" brown book, then it's either been handwritten by someone or copied by a scribe.

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and the books they list:
Stealable Books
Beltrans Guide to Guilds
Birds of Britannia
The Bold Stranger
Britannian Flora : a Casual Guide
The Burning of Trinsic
Classic Children’s Tales, Volume 2
Classic Tales of Vesper Volume 1
Deceit: A dungeon of Horrors
Dimensional Travel, a Monograph
Ethical Hedonism: an Introduction
The Fight
A Grammar of Orcish
The Life of a Traveling Minstrel
The Major Trade Association
My Story
On the Diversity of our Land
A Politic Call to Anarchy
A Primer on Arms and Weapons
Quest of the Virtues (Volumes 1 & 2)
The Rankings of the Trade
Regarding Llamas
The Shattering
A Song of Samlethe
A Tale of Three Tribes
Talking to Wisps
Taming Dragons
Treatise on Alchemy
Virtue
The Wild Girl of the Forest

I've been able to find all of those books to steal in bookshelves in towns on Atlantic.

CaesarDoP - The one's I've collected are the lightest colour ones, as they sit just right on a south facing book shelf

Phonemes of the orcish tongue is one I've actually seen before, but I've never kept it for whatever reason. I think it may have come from an IDOC, so I'll keep my eyes open to see if I can pick one up somewhere. Last time I saw it was on Great Lakes. As Trebr Drab mentioned though, it's most likely rare these days if it was a one-off easter egg drop.

Doing a library of these books is only a recent decision. Just thought it would be nice for players on Europa to have somewhere they can see these books together, that they otherwise might not see or be unaware of.

I forgot all about these, though I do remember them. Hopefully they still spawn, though I can't remember, were they drops on creatures in Khaldun or were they stealable? Either way, I'll be going for a look. Has been some years since I went there.

I'm also collecting quest books that I happen across, that come in a variety of colours. The main ones I've seen so far emanate from the museum quests in Ter Mur. I'll update with a list of all those I've had so far.

If anyone happens across any that haven't been mentioned though and can confirm they exist, please post them here.

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